painting

• Abstract paintings in oil and water colors
• Fernando Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes who was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines.
• Fernando Amorsolo was known as the Grand Old Man in the Philippines.
• Fernando Amorsolo developed the backlighting technique.
• Fernando Amorsolo used bright, saturated sunlight in his artwork.
• Most of Fernando Amorsolo's concept was the Filipino national character as rooted in rural communities and the cycles of village life.
• Fernando Amorsolo's famous works include "Planting Rice", "Dalagang Bukid", and "The making of the Philippine flag".
• Victorio Edades is known as the Father of Modern Philippine Painting for his masterful impasto technique in portraying the human body and his advocacies to advance arts in the country.
• Victorio Edades used dark and dull colors in his artwork, sometimes depicting the despondency of the human.
• Victorio Edades's themes often depicted laborers and factory workers.
• Victorio Edades's famous works include "The Builders", a finished product that rediscovered the complexities of the human body.
• Vicente Manansala's paintings depict realistic themes using an abstract or a cubist style.
• One of Carlos “Botong” Francisco's finest artworks is the First Mass at Limasawa.
• Vicente Manansala bridged the gap between the city and the rural life.
• Vicente Manansala addressed issues of intimacy, poverty, and culture.
• Carlos “Botong” Francisco was a famous painter from Angono, Rizal who discovered the Angono Petroglyphs, which are figures drawn on the walls for healing purposes.
• Carlos “Botong” Francisco was a mural painter who evoked the communal life of Philippine gatherings and celebrations, drawing his images from mythology, history, legend, and contemporary Philippine village life.
• One of Vicente Manansala's famous works is the Madonna of the Slums, which depicts a woman carrying a child, behind them are shabby residences in the city, representing the situation of Manila during the postwar, which is poverty.
• Vicente Manansala was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator who graduated from the University of the Philippines, School of Fine Arts.
• Jeremias Elizalde Navarro was a versatile artist, being both a proficient painter and sculptor.
• The First Mass at Limasawa was commissioned by the national government to commemorate the 400 years of Philippine Christianization which was held in Cebu in 1965.